The week in parliament. Hello and welcome to the week in parliament a week when Boris Johnson celebrated the arrival of a vaccine, lifted a lockdown and faced his biggest tory rebellion as Prime Minister. All we need to do now is hold our nerve until these vaccines are indeed in ourgrasp and are being injected into ourarms a week when the economic crisis deepened with the collapse of debenhams and arcadia. Thats put 25,000 jobs at risk and caused huge anxiety to families at the worst possible time. Also in this programme, advice for tough times. In my day, something bad happened, you stayed home, got drunk and bit on a shoe. Laughter. I think that is quite a good metaphor for the times we live in. But first, Boris Johnson has had worst weeks as Prime Minister, britains medicine regulator approved a coronavirus vaccine, the first country in thr world to do so englands four week nationwide lockdown was lifted and mps approved new covid rules, are tough and system of regional tiers to rep
Than on any single day before. And, yet, it will now get worse. Partisans and poisonous intent are trying to create a crisis on top of a crisis. This moment will be remembered for what happens next. And i want to be on record to you and to all as an american, as a journalist and as an officer of the court, trump and his party are trying to kill our democracy with these efforts and i accuse them of this high crime tonight. This is wrong. Now, their efforts dont have to come to fruition for the fraud to be a crime against you, the people. This is a power grab attempted that is worse than anything we have seen in modern politics. These men and women are doing it with complete knowledge that there is nothing worthy behind the claims. Their hope is a foul one, that a single body may validate their vindictiveness and nullify democracy. To be fair and to expose the fraud, all of these attorneys general were invited. Not one chose to own this argument in person. Every statement offered was ful
Hello and welcome to the week in parliament a week when borisjohnson celebrated the arrival of a vaccine, lifted a lockdown and faced his biggest tory rebellion as Prime Minister. All we need to do now, mr speaker, is hold our nerve until these vaccines are indeed in our grasp and are being injected into ourarms a week when the economic crisis deepened with the collapse of debenhams and arcadia. Thats put 25,000 jobs at risk and caused huge anxiety to families at the worst possible time. Also in this programme, advice for tough times. In my day, something bad happened, you stayed home, got drunk and bit on a shoe. Laughter. I think that is quite a good metaphor for the times we live in. But first, Boris Johnson has had worst weeks as Prime Minister, britains medicine regulator approved a coronavirus vaccine, the first country in the world to do so englands four week nationwide lockdown was lifted and mps approved new covid rules, are tough and system of regional tiers to replace that l
Interviews and do other overt steps. And what possible implications could the investigation have on the Biden Administration and the independence of the Justice Department investigating one of the soontobe president s own family members . Its going to be one of the thorny things that the new attorney general that joe biden picks in the coming days is going to have to deal with. The president elect has said that he expects the Justice Department to behave independently, but i got to tell you today the biden transition is the one that issued this statement on behalf of the Vice President s son, which is an odd thing to do. You know, weve just come off four years of an administration that didnt seem to know the difference between the president s personal and official responsibilities. Its not clear how much thought went into the decision for the biden transition to issue, you know, a statement on behalf of the son on a purely personal matter. Yeah. Evan perez, thank you. Remier reminder,
About today is picking up where we left off on thursday with the end of the cold war. And also im trying to make sure that we stitch different themes that weve had through the quarter and through both quarters together. The program is titled america to 2025. So something about the future is important and as ive been thinking about the last part of the 20th century the 1990s i think makes sense to really dig into in terms of how people thought about the future in culture in popular cultural as well as in politics. So the themes and overviews that i want to talk about in terms of this do a little bit of looking back looking forward and then theyre kind of going to be two halves of the lecture links to kind of politics and links to pop culture. So i want to talk about the end of the cold war and especially how it manifested and how americans thought about politics. Then i want to talk about pop culture and think about the the way the 90s thought about the future and thought about the pres